contras1970

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by contras1970 9y ago
> A program is so much more than a flat collection of lines of text stored on a filesystem. > Our tools force us to "reduce" a program and dumb it down to a bunch of flat files. Agreed with a reservation: text sucks, but
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by contras1970 9y ago
As someone who strives to write great reference manuals and thinks pretty high of the prose in the POSIX spec, would you point me at some examples of good win32 documentation? I'm always looking for inspiration.
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by contras1970 9y ago
tar -cf - ./somedir | ssh remote tar -xvf - -C /whatever
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by contras1970 9y ago
I think you literally mean figuratively.
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by contras1970 9y ago
> But I don't want the user's browser to provide an immediate and obvious "DOWNLOAD" button on my content. Ok, but why? > Sure, if they really want to, they can inspect the page and download the video. But havin
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by contras1970 10y ago
https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/motoconf aims for that space, sadly it's very incomplete and dormant.
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by contras1970 10y ago
would be awesome to see a direct response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13997215
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by contras1970 10y ago
% /bin/sh $ echo $((1 + 2)) 3 $ uname -srm DragonFly 4.7-DEVELOPMENT x86_64
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by contras1970 10y ago
> I kinda doubt that anyone has consciously tried to make the commercials louder than the content. It's a tough problem to get right: The television industry has been at it a lot longer, and they still barely make it work. right,
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by contras1970 10y ago
0.0001% (about 1 every 1000 orders) 1 in 1000 is 0.1%
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by contras1970 10y ago
just like you never hear a carpenter say they have a saw-and-hammer shop. languages are tools, not identities. anyway, is something like [this] result of development or gluing things together? [this] https://github.com/roma
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by contras1970 10y ago
FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT on this very laptop. I'm going to build an 1800X-based box in a few weeks (for games; planning to run Steam on a GNU/Linux distro), I'll want to see `make -j16 buildworld` for sure.
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by contras1970 10y ago
s/pedal/peddle/
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by contras1970 10y ago
It's only bizarre because we've been brainwashed in our youth years into thinking highly of USA, and our adult selves still mourn the loss of simple ethical compass, but that was always only imaginary.
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by contras1970 10y ago
if copyright infringement is theft, then theft is surely murder?
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by contras1970 10y ago
parserless configuration is easily achieved with stuff like envdir: https://cr.yp.to/daemontools/envdir.html
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by contras1970 10y ago
I'm pretty sure you're scratching yourself locally.
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by contras1970 10y ago
That may be true but the message from grep shows that $! wasn't expanded by the execution evironment. BTW i get # Print "hello world". # Hint: There are many ways to print text on # the command line, one way is with t
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by contras1970 10y ago
We can tell from the length field that we need to read 0x00000101 (or 257) bytes; 257 8 = 2056 bytes, which is in the range for a 2048-byte RSA key (with some of the bits going unused).
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by contras1970 10y ago
do you have any credible sources? the House report is a (sad) joke, and Rogers is a liar.
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by contras1970 10y ago
do you have any links?
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by contras1970 10y ago
I'm not saying you beat your wife, but it's very possible and explains quite a few things. Now seriously, I honestly don't know: what would Snowden being in colusion with Russa prior to the affair explain, or explain better?
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by contras1970 10y ago
Example code should be exemplary.
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by contras1970 10y ago
> lol this is totally wrong. One browser exploit coupled with one kernel exploit [...] You seem to contradict yourself there. > What attacks are they even mitigating? The page is based on this email to users@dragonflybsd.org
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by contras1970 10y ago
sure, if you ship broken man pages, people will stop using them.
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by contras1970 10y ago
So... When have you stopped beating your wife?
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by contras1970 10y ago
I hope Microsoft turns out to be a spineless, inmediate profit-seeking corporation it's always been so far. It has just been turning its sails towards the wind in the past few years. Their hegemony was gone, bundling wouldn't
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by contras1970 10y ago
Because of perverse directives, and the bootstrapping problem. Research generates citations, citations generate tenure. Teaching does neither (currently).
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by contras1970 10y ago
i can imagine building everything from sources must be painful on such a puny machine. why didn't you use binary packages? pkg install vim ?
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by contras1970 10y ago
DJB software is/was great, but there's rarely a reason to go that route for most users most of the time, today. You may very well be right, most people at any period of time are in way above their level of knowledge and conseq

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